So what is the plan? How are we going to take down the GOPe and prevent the nomination?
There is no plan, just bluster. Same thing we see every 4 years. Some people just don't want to hear that the real solution isn't all that glamorous and exciting, and won't include conservative mobs storming the convention or any other national drama. It's a bottom up effort. More conservatives simply need to join their local Republican party and exert their influence to pull the party rightward. None of this shouting, boycotting, screaming, etc, will accomplish a thing.
I'm implementing phase 1 right now by TRYING to convince enough republicans NOT to vote for this RINO/liberal Romney. I'm doing this mostly outside of FR. Either write in someone else, or vote for PAUL, (that will really piss them off!)
Phase Two, if Romney does not get the pledged delegates hammer home Newt or another conservative!
Phrase Three: Go to the convention and cause as much contention as possible by shouting down the process, or use any LEGAL means of disruption. Show the dissatisfaction! Definitely cause a huge fracture in the party.
Conservatives have every right to try to wrest power away from these rino/moderates. We have to realize the country is behind us.
If Romney does succeed in securing the pledged delegates, still refer to phase three and let the GOPe know we do not support this! IOW, if we create a fractured GOP then we will somewhat be on our way to success, BUT if conservatives sit back and DO NOTHING, give in and not raise total Cain then insanity has set in...You do know the definition of insanity, right?
You would think the GOP would have learned by now after putting up LOSER McCain. Romney has a worse record than even McCain. What concerns me most is Romney winning the election and foisting his liberal rino agenda and a republican congress going along with it! Also, Romneycare is implemented, if the SC strikes down Obamacare, guess what gets put in it's place!!! "MANDATORY" Do you like this word because that's exactly what you are going to get with Romney. ROMNEYCARE!
“So what is the plan? How are we going to take down the GOPe and prevent the nomination?”
At some point patriots will stop hiring dragon keepers and put their revolutionary pants on and commit to being self employed dragon slayers.
Laugh at the OWSers, they’re fools, but at least they’re willing to be foolish. Look in distaste at ACORN, but they were boots on the ground while the conservative majority were so many Laz-Y-Boy pundits each more righter than the next, we bit each other’s tails while they organized.
We have been programmed to be submissive and trust in elected “strong men” to do the dirty work for us...”pleeze Daddy make the bad men go ‘way”. The opposition has been programmed to be offensive, in your face, in the public square, in the media, bolding tearimg the Constitution to shreds right on our lawn and communicating “WTF are you going to do about it?”...and we peep from behind our windowshades and compose a strongly worded blog.
I’m looking right in the mirror as I say this. I was a boy during the protests of the 60’s-70’s but I remember the times, how they seized the moment and changed the country, all the while manipulated by forces of which they were ignorant. I saw and I knew this socialist movement was a new assault on our country based on the foundations of the old, and I wallowed in my many distractions and enjoyments while they took our America away, cut her throat and put her in the cement right next to Jimmy Hoffa...there isn’t even a body left so we can tell our kids “this is the America I knew, this is what they did to her” and give the noble experiment a decent burial. No, our kids will grow up in a socialist Lubyanka with indoctrination for education and lying self-serving political aristocrats for their role models, and That Is Their America.
Makes me think how even in the old movies the patriot was steteotyped as an old fashioned, ill informed curmudgeon railing against “those damn Reds”. How clear is hindsight.
In my short time at FR it seems I’ve “gotten religion”. I confess my sins against this country, I am willing to be a fool for this country, and for the Christians, remind that the foolishness of God overwhelms the wisdom of men.
In short, Revolution. Millions of people looking in the office windows of the latest liberal stooges wih eyes like a Sicilian widow’s curse. The jails full, the ER’s jammed with injured protesters, who beg to be patched up so they can return to the streets. Highway roadblocks set up to prevent more conservative protesters coming, results in them leaving their cars where they sit and proceeding on foot. Gandhi, with a shillelagh and a pocket Constitution. Police and National Guard finally refusing to beat down, joining. A fantasy ridiculous to our “finer sensibilities”, but one of glorious historical precedent.
This kind of committment is just too low-brow and inconvenient for many of us, but it is meat and potatoes for the left. And I remind, they have won. The public eye, the national sympathy, the media monopoly, and the reins of power, using inferior numbers, inferior arguments, and inferior morals, and won by commitment to their evil ideas and pure force of will.
In other words, we possessed the advantage but lacked the willpower to protect our inheritance...and now the issue is no longer how to protect it, because it is lost. The issue is, do we have the individual and national will to take it back, re-insitute a constitutonal government even of that means pouring a new foundation on top of scorched earth.
One picture I want to put in your mind; it’s a true story...in Tampa, Florida, in the 80’s, I was driving through a downtown business area, when traffic came to a standstill. That was unusual, unless there had been an accident or something. As it crept forward, I saw what appeared to be a beautiful nude woman, holding a sign...but as I eventually was allowed to creep closer, I saw that it was an attractive woman in a tight flesh-colored bodysuit, and the sign she held, said “I’D RATHER GO NUDE THAN WEAR FUR”. The look on her face did not indicate she was having a good time. It was determined, like despite the catcalls she had a job to do, and she wad going to do it until they hauled her away. Which they did.
I was “anti” her politics, but I could not help but give credence to her individual committment and willpower. She was willing to be a fool and make a futile gesture, and that lone futile gesture stopped traffic and made an indelible image on everyone who saw it.
One futile gesture can stop traffic. One futile gesture in every town and city, is war drums. One thousand such fools in every city and no one will longer care what either the GOP or the DNC are doing. The strong man, will be us. (Which is exactly what the fathers’ intended.)
I remember a preacher once saying that the Enemy is a rip-off artist...there isn’t one sin or evil scheme that doesn’t have a blessing from God at it’s center...but it’s always a blessing that’s been twisted. My thought is, there isn’t a weapon that our enemy uses against us, that we can’t take back, untwist, and use it against him even more powerfully and intelligently than he could ever dream of. Why aren’t there patriotic Twitter mob protests, conservative community organizers, why aren’t we flooding liberal churches and centers of black racist theology, joining face to face in worship and debate, why aren’t second amendment defenders marching nude with long arms on their shoulders, behind banners that say “I’D FEEL NAKED WITHOUT MY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS”. It wouldn’t matter if they cured cancer that day, on The Day The Naked Gun Rights People Marched, the cure for cancer would be page 2 on the news, THAT day.
These are the things we are not willing to do. I hope, for the sake of the country we all knew...and will never see again...that we find the will to take our inheritance and power back from the people who have stolen it, and reboot that document that our formers and betters sanctified with blood, sweat, tears, their lives and their worldly possessions.
The only way to genuinely begin a new America, is the way she was begun before.
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience [has] shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.” —Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776. ME 1:29, Papers 1:429
“Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.” —Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774. (*) ME 1:193, Papers 1:125
“When patience has begotten false estimates of its motives, when wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.” —Thomas Jefferson to M. deStael, 1807. ME 11:282 “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” —Thomas Jefferson: his motto.
“If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.” —Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 1813. ME 13:430
“The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exclusions and incapacitations are removed.” —Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Religion, 1776. Papers 1:548
“As revolutionary instruments (when nothing but revolution will cure the evils of the State) [secret societies] are necessary and indispensable, and the right to use them is inalienable by the people.” —Thomas Jefferson to William Duane, 1803. FE 8:256
P.S. : I did not hunt and choose these quotes. I went to a famous quotes site, entered “Thomas+Jefferson, Rebel” and copied and pasted exactly this.
P.P.S. : I have found that certain folks who have their heart set on voting for a lib in rino clothing out of expediency, have actually mocked these quotations when they are presented to them...if there’s a better litmus test as to whether those individuals are conservatives making a conservative choice, I don’t know what it is.